Chair Stretches

Today, physical therapist and movement expert Sherry bets will demonstrate a few exercises you can do after sitting for long periods of time. Hi. Here are some great moves that you can do if you're sitting in a board meeting for hours on end or at a conference or find yourself on a long flight to Europe and you're going to go crazy if you don't do some movement. So here's a couple of things that you might try. So curling your lumbar spine, thinking of your pelvis being like a wheel rolling underneath your spine to get your low back moving a little bit. Then take the hands to the back of the head length in the spine.

And if your chair allows it, then extend over the back of the chair. Just be sure you don't push into your feet and knock yourself over onto your head. It's really not good if you fall on your head. Inhale to reach back and exhale to sit tall. Another move you can do is to scoot to the front of the chair, press into the back of the backrest of the chair, and then stick your chest out like you're a mermaid on the front of a ship. Hopefully not the titanic because the titanic sunk.

Inhale to reach an exhale, relax and inhale, reach, feeling that ultimate chest expansion and relax. And the last one is my favorite. You put one cheek off the chair, not this cheek. Extend your leg back to what I call the marriage proposal position. Just make sure you don't tip the chair over and then lengthen your spine. Get the pelvis underneath.

Keep that low belly lifted so you don't arch your back and then extend your hip. This is the most delicious move. If I've been sitting at a board meeting on an airplane for a long period of time, just make sure that the flight attendant doesn't run over your foot with the, with the cart. Breathe in and breathe out to extend the leg. You don't have to straighten your knee, but what you want to feel is that stretch in the front of the hip.

And then if you're daring and don't hit your neighbor, then you can reach your arm up and over and stretch and lift the ribs off the pelvis and then take the arm back down. Ah, and then maybe you won't kill somebody if you've been sitting for a long period of time. So enjoy opiod fun. Thank you for watching this episode. And please subscribe to our channel if you haven't done so already. For full access to Palladio's classes, tutorials and workshops, go to [inaudible] anytime.com see you.

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